{"id":291693,"date":"2015-06-04T20:12:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T00:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/2015\/06\/bet-you-cant-have-just-one\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:19:43","slug":"bet-you-cant-have-just-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/2015\/06\/bet-you-cant-have-just-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Bet you can&#8217;t have just one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2016-election\/former-texas-gov-rick-perry-says-hell-seek-gop-nomination-n369591?cid=eml_nbn_20150604\" target=\"_blank\">I see where<\/a> former Texas governor Rick Perry is <a href=\"https:\/\/rickperry.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">running for President again<\/a>. I guess it&#8217;s like eating potato chips; once you start it&#8217;s hard to stop\u00a0even if you&#8217;re not actually enjoying them.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly I thought Perry was a good candidate in 2012&#8230; until I saw him campaign. Now it just calls to mind an unkind but apt comment long ago\u00a0from, I think, John Ehrlichman about a congressman developing &#8220;inexplicable&#8221; presidential ambitions. And Tacitus&#8217; verdict on Galba that &#8220;<em>omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset<\/em>&#8221; except at least Galba was surprisingly bad at <em>doing<\/em> the job, not at filling out the initial application.<\/p>\n<p>Politics does strange things to people&#8217;s judgement in all kinds of areas conspicuously including &#8220;I can win this&#8221; and &#8220;I should try&#8221;. But do we really have to watch?<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Andrew Cline \/ Shutterstock<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I see where former Texas governor Rick Perry is running for President again. I guess it&#8217;s like eating potato chips; once you start it&#8217;s hard to stop\u00a0even if you&#8217;re not actually enjoying them. Frankly I thought Perry was a good candidate in 2012&#8230; until I saw him campaign. Now it just calls to mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":291333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"article-status":[],"irpp-category":[],"section":[],"irpp-tag":[],"class_list":["post-291693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bet you can&#039;t have just one<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/2015\/06\/bet-you-cant-have-just-one\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bet you can&#039;t have just one\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So I see where former Texas governor Rick Perry is running for President again. 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